The Church is the body of Christ
Saint Epiphanius, Bishop of Constantine (Cyprus), said: “How can the Old Testament become useless and not valid for the New Testament?...And from there […]
Chapter Three - Detailed Explanation of the Constitution: “By the one, catholic, holy, and apostolic Church”
21- And in the one church, the waw is a conjunction. “Church” is connected to what came before it, meaning: “I believe in the one God the Father... and in the one Lord Jesus.”
Chapter Three - Detailed Explanation of the Constitution: “And by the Holy Spirit”
20- And with the Holy Spirit, the letter “waw” and “waw” are the conjunctions. “The Holy Spirit” is connected to what came before it, meaning: “I believe in one God, the Father, and one Lord.”
The Lord's Supper - Baptists' rejection of the Eucharist
There is no distortion of the meanings of the liturgical service (the Divine Mass) and its salvific effects like what you read in the writings of some Christian groups, especially
Sixth: Discussing the issue of regeneration and salvation by faith alone
From what we read previously, we notice how they consider a human being based on a certain circumstance or based on a certain urge as
The nature of the church
The Church was founded by Christ. The first thing that appears in the New Testament is the Evangelist Matthew, when the Apostle Peter promises that...
The living body of Christ
لقد استعمل المسيحيون الأولون العبارة اليونانية ecclesia للدلالة على هذه الحقيقة الجديدة المجيدة التي كانوا يشعرون كل الشعور بأنهم ينتمون
the church
كنيسة المسيح ليست مؤسسة، إنها حياة جديدة مع المسيح وبالمسيح، يرشدها الروح القدس. إن نور قيامة المسيح يشع على الكنيسة،
Chapter Twenty-Eight - The Ritual Year
The life of the saints is the life of Christ himself, continuing throughout the ages. We are united to them on the basis of the human nature that Christ reformed through his incarnation, death and resurrection. In the divine liturgy, and especially the Eucharist, we participate in the life of Christ and its events and in the life of the saints, because we are all one body, Christ, the saints and ourselves, and we are all “one in Christ Jesus.”
James the Apostle, brother of John the Evangelist
He is James, son of Zebedee, the older brother of Saint John the Evangelist, and he was a fisherman with his father and brother. After Jesus called Peter
Chapter Fourteen - A person's joining the Church
The heavenly birth that Christ speaks of is “the washing of regeneration and renewal that comes from the Holy Spirit,” that is, receiving the Holy Spirit through baptism in the name of the Holy Trinity. It is the presence of the Holy Spirit that renews the birth of man. This presence takes place within the Church through the sacrament of baptism and the other sacraments.
Chapter Thirteen - The Holy Deposit of the Church
The truth of salvation in Christ is not a rigid letter that can be preserved in a book. It is a treasure that the Lord gave to the apostles so that their union would be the sure guarantee of their possession of the truth of salvation. The apostles passed this treasure on to the bishops so that they might complete the mission, in their union with the Church - the Body of Christ, where the Holy Spirit works. In doing so, they do not express their own opinion, but the will of the Holy Spirit who dwells in the Church.